Thesaurus: identical

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1. a. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.
2. a. Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.
3. adj. exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different
4. adj. being the exact same one; not any other:
5. adj. (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum
6. adj. having properties with uniform values along all axes
7. adj. coinciding exactly when superimposed
8. 1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist. Reid. 2. Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological. When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity. Fleming. Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.
9. j:100 s. exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different s. being the exact same one; not any other: a. (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum s. having properties with uniform values along all axes